Re: [Mpls] good news / bad news

[WizardMarks]

James E. Jacobsen wrote:

          I will say about the election that I used to be a strong
Democrat.  When living on the West Bank and a student, I was a member of the
PAC and participated in several DFL campaign activities.
          But then like most of the student crowd, I was looking to move
on, I wanted to buy a house and ended up buying a four plex on a GI loan and
then two duplexes in need of repair and for low down payment.
         With that I became persona non gratta on the West Bank.  I was
like 'investigated' and found to own property and I then became subject of
phony but worrisome law suits which I won easily though at some expense and
loss of 20 pounds.
         With all of that, I was totally poisoned on the 'DFL'  and haven't
voted for any Democrat candidate since.

I do not find a logical connection here. If the DFLers on the West Bank caused you trouble, it sounds like a problem particular to the west bank at that point in time. It was not the democratic party which spammed you with law suits and shunned you--it was some people on the West Bank who were also democrats. They may have had other characteristics in common as well as being democrats and living on the west bank. Shunning, however, is a Minnesota cultural control and belongs to several of the cultures which make up Minnesota's population. It is not confined to either democrats, republicans, independents, greens, or other parties.

         Further, when I found out that Wellstones were involved as
organizers of the Crookston power line sabatage some 25 years ago -though I
had met and talked to Mondale long back, and thought well of the Mondales,
no way would I vote Democrat.

I'm not getting the connection here, either. I could easily say, 'well (harumpf, harumpf) I worked for Bob Taft once (1963 maybe) and I'd never vote for a Republican.' That was another time, another place. We didn't even have freeways yet or e-mail.
You also didn't say HOW the Wellstone's were "involved" in the Crookston power line (cause I do not believe Wellstone would sabotage anything). Wellstone was a grassroots organizer and a teacher. He taught people how, in this country, one organizes one's thoughts in order to organize one's neighbors to get their justifiable needs met through the process of government.
It's up to each one of us to choose where our belief system is reflected in the political spectrum. It's an important choice for each citizen. It sounds to me like you're admitting that you'll sell your birthright for a mess of pottage, pottage like a connection to the Crookston electrical line corridor and some neighbors who were at least nominally democrats.
I've only been an active democrat in Minnesota for the last 30 years or so and I can truthfully say that there are people in the democratic party I wouldn't cross the street to talk to, some I avoid whenever possible, and others who are long time friends and acquaintances. Course I can say the same thing about republicans too. And third partyers as well. And people who don't give a rat's patootie one way or the other.
The real good news was that so many people chose to exercise their franchise, their birthright to choose their leaders. If we've chosen badly, we'll know soon enough. If we've chosen well, we'll know that soon enough as well.
Personally, I'm feeling a tad gob struck at the moment.
Wizard Marks, Central

         James Jacobsen  //  Whittier


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